#theosophy

[thedrownedcathedral]

Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944), The Parsifal Series, Group I, No 1. 2 October 1916. Watercolour and graphite on paper, 25 x 26cm.

[themusewithinthemusewithout]

The Rose, Nr4, by Hilma af Klint, 1907.

[cryptotheism]

That same year, the Madras Christian Collective (fact check this, it could be Collective or College) would publish a scathing expose. The contents were largely based on correspondences between Blavatsky and Emma Coulomb, a former accomplice in many of Blavatsky’s scams, now turned traitor. The details of the so-called “Coulomb Affair” are hotly contested, but the end result was strong, public evidence that Blavatsky was a huckster who knowingly falsified her supernatural abilities. I could spend pages cataloging her parlor tricks. Most of them involved bribing servants to hide notes ahead of time, so they could be dramatically revealed –as if summoned from thin air– by the mark. And shock of all shocks: Koot Humi wasn’t real. He was a fiction. 

Blavatsky’s detractors, and even her sycophants, will point to her frauds as evidence of her fundamental deceit. As if her fraud makes her unqualified, undeserving, of being an influential occultist. On this point, I see no reason why a woman can’t be a con artist, and an influential theologian. I am an American. We love a grift. 

The decline of Bavatsky, today on Patreon

[creature-wizard]

HP Lovecraft does not get enough recognition for thrashing the hell out of Theosophy's mythology, tbh. Real "worst person you know made a good point" kind of situation, but damn, he really caught the stench of bullshit from Blavatsky's writings and felt compelled to write something about it.

[erasmo-de-la-parra]

Before rising from its ashes, the phoenix was pain and fire.

— Bernard Engel

[noughtlux]

Astral Plane IV Digital art 2024 (Lic.: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

[jareckiworld]

Emma Kunz (1892-1963) — Work No. 333 [pencil and oil crayon on millimetre graph paper, no date]

[occvltswim]

The Universe, Earth and Man — in their Relationship to Egyptian Myths and Modern Civilization (1931)

[laputalashline]

“All comes forth from spirit, and matter is merely a creation of the spirit engaged in thought. He who imagines himself separate is separate. Let him sink into himself, and all the universe will fade away as a dream.”

Annie Bessant, from 'Theosophy'

[vintage-tigre]

[pauljosephrovelli]

[thedrownedcathedral]

Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944), The Parsifal Series, Group I, No 6. 6 October 1916. Watercolour and graphite on paper, 28 x 26cm.

[occultesotericart]

[victusinveritas]

And this is why you also digitize things and make copies and store them in a second location (that's not just the Akashic Record, a real, brick and mortar second location. Far away from the first location.)...

On the upside the secret chiefs should be able to give them all the info they really need.

[theaigeneration]

Happy Birthday Mr. Crowley

[erasmo-de-la-parra]

Speak with the voice of silence.